Amy Karas is a speech-language pathologist with over 18 years of experience providing speech, language, cognitive, and functional therapy to adults with traumatic and acquired brain injuries, as well as adults with non-specific cognitive disorders. She serves as the Educational Coordinator at Community Rehab Care with a primary focus on outcomes and trainings specific to insurance, documentation, and patient care in a post-acute rehab setting. Karas also provides case management services to individuals with TBI through the Statewide Head Injury Program (SHIP) and facilitates a Community Aphasia Support Group. She has presented at a variety of conferences and small group trainings for other health care providers, case managers, families, and survivors.

Disclosures:

Within the last 24 months, have you rendered, or in the next two years, will you render clinical services or support services (whether diagnostic, therapeutic, educational, case management, or similar) to persons with TBI or their family members and caregivers, as an independent professional or employee of a for-profit or not-for-profit organization?: I work as a SLP HCM; approx 50% of my week is both private practice and agency-supported work.

Within the past 24 months, I or one of my “immediate family members” received personal compensation for the following: Speakers honoraria at CM Conf (10/13).